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Friday, 10 February 2012

The Final Push

I think we're in the final push to finish "Call it Qids", the Society of Ancients incentive game for this year.

Ian has delivered the final version of the historical background and also the gameboard. He has excelled himself with some of the graphics, and it all looks great on the screen. We've argued over exactly what goes where and over victory conditions, but I think we have a really good outcome. All I have to do is cram the text into 16 black and white pages.

I've managed to get most of it in, and by dropping the font size to 10pt I've kept it readable and created enough space for some examples of game play to make everything clear. We've also found space for some nice big maps. There's some work to do on the counter sheet (Ian's changed the logo on me at the last minute), and he's just sent me a new map to put in, - although admittedly I did ask for that!

Now it's all the checking. Ensuring place names are consistent. Ensuring there's no terrible typos. Making sure no paragraph has got lost in all of the changes. Making sure pictures aren't overlaying text - or vice versa. Making sure all of the text makes sense.

So that's what I'm doing on a Friday evening in February. Sitting in my study, hunched over a keyboard. Mrs T occasionally pops her head round the door and asks me how its going and wonders out loud why I have to do this again this year. There isn't an answer really.

But I really need to get this finished. We're way for the weekend visiting Miss T in her new flat, and then in March we're off on holiday so time is running out. And no doubt next weekend we'll be visiting one of my parents if not both.

Then, hopefully, ex-President Steele will turn up on Monday evening with a bag load of goodies from Hammerhead so I can start to put the finishing touches to the display version board and start to base up the figures. Deadline on that's not too bad. I'm hoping/expecting to get this done in time for Campaign in Milton Keynes (12th -13th May) which should coincide with the game getting out to the membership.

Any how, just thought any of you SoA types out there might like an update.

About Me

I have been a wargamer as long as I can remember, pretty much.
My interests spread pretty generally across the entire historical period. I mostly prefer to develop and use my own rules. As such I've been a member of Wargames Developments since the early 80's.
I do use commercially available rules and have a large collection, - many of which have been played. I've been fond of the RFCM approach from Peter Pig in the past, and I make a lot of use of Neil Thomas' rules. They always seem a good place to start.